Research On Group Portrait Prints In The 21st Century National Print Exhibition (2002-2022

The national printmaking exhibition is held every two years on average.Since 1954,it has been held for 24 consecutive sessions.It is one of the brands with the most continuous and far-reaching influence of the Chinese Artists Association,and also the largest and highest professional printmaking exhibition in China at present.Group prints,as an important part of Chinese modern and contemporary prints,occupy a large volume in the selected works of the national exhibition of prints.This paper takes group prints in the 21 st century National Printmaking Exhibition as the research object,sorts out the selected works of 10 printmaking exhibitions from 2000 to 2021,studies group prints as a separate category,explores its creation law,analyzes its humanistic and social connotation,and sorts out the development context of group prints.This paper is divided into four chapters.The first three chapters systematically sort out the group prints in the 21 st century national print exhibition from the superficial to the profound.The first chapter makes a comparative analysis of different exhibitions.Firstly,from the aspects of exhibition system,organization structure,specific implementation and the situation of participants,it elaborates the national print exhibition and several important domestic print exhibitions in detail,summarizes their characteristics and compares their similarities and differences.Secondly,it analyzes and comments on the overall appearance of national print exhibition since the 21 st century,and grasps the group prints as a whole.In Chapter two,according to the different identities of the figures in the paintings,group prints are divided into four categories: popular prints,military prints,historical prints and conceptual prints.Some representative works are selected to explain the specific works,creators and artistic phenomena in more detail from the ontology.Chapter three analyzes the artistic characteristics,spiritual connotation and material tendency of group prints in the national printmaking exhibition in the 21 st century from the three dimensions of society,culture and author,and explores the law of its development and evolution.The fourth chapter is about the author’s graduation creation.